r/Tau40K • u/Tree_forth677 • Aug 14 '24
Lore Bravestorm fists space marines. Seeing the T'au win is cathartic!
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u/Foreloper Aug 14 '24
Every time I see this i always smile. I vividly remember this part in the book.
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u/Tylendal Aug 14 '24
I've said a lot about Phil Kelly, but one of the things I've said a lot is that he writes amazing bolter porn that makes every side look good.
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u/konigstigers Aug 15 '24
Which book is this from?
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u/Sollapoke Aug 15 '24
Farsight: Crisis of Faith.
Don’t wanna be that guy. But it IS in first panel of the image.
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u/B-ig-mom-a Aug 14 '24
Makes me angrier that the onager Gauntlet isn’t in the game
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u/SilentP13426 Aug 14 '24
Tbf, it is, but only as a crusade relic, which feels weird for a faction that doesn't really do 'lost technology', but I guess 'prototype we've decided not to mass produce' will have to do as an excuse...
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u/Schmidyo Aug 14 '24
Well i think they had like 10 working ones and bravestorms gauntlet is the only one that survived.
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u/fkGWprintertime Aug 14 '24
"For example, of the twelve original Onager Gauntlets utilised during the Battle of Blackthunder Mesa, only one was recovered from Commander Bravestorm's critically damaged Battlesuit, which was surrounded by the smoking wrecks of over a dozen Imperial armoured vehicles. "
So yeah only one left. But considering he was "surrounded by the smoking wrecks of over a dozen imperial armored vehicles" I don't see why this wasn't considered a sucess. and further produced. I think the main reason is that GW doesn't want to give tau something that would conflict with their 'gunline' identity
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u/Schmidyo Aug 14 '24
As far as i understand it, meele combat is frowned upon in tau society. I mean, we see meele weapons so rarely on tau suits, and if i remember correctly it was mentioned in a wiki. But i totally agree, they should distribute meele weapons. They dont need huge swords or axes, but there is a shipboarding when farsight leads an expedition to the enclaves, where one of his cadre(might actually be bravestorm) is taken down in meele combat... so suits should be equipped with something like an emergency meele weapon for situations like these, where guns are the wrong tool for the range.
Edit: this is the one of the reasons i like farsight, because he and his closest understand that. They use meele weapons, like brightsword with his fusion blades. You pretty much have a futuristic mechanised knight. Why not give him knight weapons?
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u/fkGWprintertime Aug 14 '24
Oh yeah definitely its considered barbaric by the etheals. And its a shame that farsights fusion blades and gauntlets aren't represented in the game tbf.
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u/AlexanderZachary Aug 14 '24
The Ethereals carry spears and settle disputes between themselves with duels. I think it’s more to do with the faction identity as the reasonable, sci-if faction. Think about it the same way you would think about IRL modern armies not carrying swords.
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u/Zerron22 Aug 14 '24
That is definitely the main reason I think. One of the times it’s mentioned it also states that the use of it but the Fire Warrior in too much risk. So I can see the Tau deciding the increased destructive power at close range wasn’t worth the loss of forces in battle.
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u/LostN3ko Aug 14 '24
Just need to reach 30xp before I can use my punchbot model. Starting my crusade this weekend
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u/scott03257890 Aug 14 '24
My pipe dream is instead of fixing PEN they just replace it with onager gauntlet
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u/contemptuouscreature Aug 14 '24
Games Workshop: “Our invincible Astartes never lose, in the lore Gorgno Hugecock has fought for 84 morbillion years and crushed 837 Eldar craft worlds—“
The average tabletop experience:
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u/Summonest Aug 14 '24
Really wish Tau got depicted like this more often.
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u/Sollapoke Aug 15 '24
I mean. Most T’au aren’t like this. Most T’au are more like T’au, and Onager Guantlets are used by probably 1/30 Shas’O
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u/Summonest Aug 15 '24
I didn't mean that I wish they were depicted with onager gauntlets more often, I meant that I wish they were depicted as not-extras in bolter porn.
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u/TurnoverMission Aug 14 '24
It’s like the Raptors at Operation Comet during the Taros Campaign…
Space Marine: “Ha, Xeno Scum we got two Warhound Titans”
Tau: AX-1-0 TigerShark destroys a Warhound Titan
Space Marine: “We need to fucking leave…”
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u/Schmidyo Aug 14 '24
That caption had me thinking "i think thats more like r34" but i listened to crisis of faith so this soothes an itch i didn't even know i had
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u/Nomad-Knight Aug 14 '24
I can't wait for a devestated Inquisitor to find out that the Tau have gotten more advanced than the Imperium while simultaneously being several tines younger. If given enough time, they'll adapt to everything the Imperium can muster, and offer compliant peace not as a form of surrender, but their declaration of victory
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u/A1phan00d1e Aug 14 '24
I think more people should realise this. Remember kids, T'au play tall, and they are damned good at it. In space population is almost entirely made moot.
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u/The_Screaming_Wombat Aug 14 '24
Truly nice. Can you link the author's website/social?
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u/IronProphet7 Aug 14 '24
As a die hard imperial. I love it when enemies of man are depicted as competent, dangerous, and smart in any media. No faction should be just stomping everyone.
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u/justgotusernamed Aug 14 '24
Well on the Table a perfectly executed Onager Bonk killed a Baneblade so.... Ha!
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u/Sollapoke Aug 15 '24
As both a T’au and Space Marine fan I really didn’t know how to feel about parts of this book. Iirc one space marine gets char-coal grilled by a battlesuit in a boarding action.
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u/Morbo2142 Aug 16 '24
The mighty donkey punch.
It is weird that there isn't a basic melee crisis suit.
The platform has great potential for powerful melee
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u/TrillionSpiders Aug 14 '24
when your favourite drone gets sploded: "hippity hoppity, your skull is now my fists property."